Infrastructure agent release notesRSS

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released, which includes a security fix.

Improvements

• Disabled warning messages when caching new plugins info. The warning messages might have given the impression that there was an error or malfunction where the caching mechanism was working as intended.

Bug fixes

• Security Bulletin NR18-05: Fixed a security issue in which, under some premises, the process sampler may not strip correctly the command-line information and submit some sensitive data to the Process View.
• Fixed a problem where if the agent was disconnected for >24 hours and then would reconnect, it would not resend this data to New Relic.
• Fixed storage metrics calculations on Windows hosts.
• Fixed inventory of installed programs on Windows hosts, which were not correctly reported since v1.0.859.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Linux and Windows release.

Improvements

• Allow disabling inventory of SELinux modules in hosts where the associated command consumes too much CPU. Set selinux_enable_semodule configuration option to false to disable it while keeping the rest of SELinux plugin features.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that avoided updating the information of a Linux process when its command name changes at runtime, or when a new process starts with a PID that already existed for a previous process.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Linux and Windows release.

Improvements

• Implement Remote Entity for Inventories.
• Removed Cassandra and Crontab bundled plugin.
• Updated URLs for region-aware licenses.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a deadlock that happened during Read/Write of large plugin outputs.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Linux and Windows release.

Improvements

• Prevent multiple instances of an integration from running at the same time.

Bug fixes

• Fixes issues with possibly corrupt JSON stored in the delta cache due to agent shutting down uncleanly.
• Security Bulletin NR18-05: Fixes issue introduced in version 1.0.822 where command lines that included arguments that themselves had paths in them would trip up the parser and not properly strip out the command.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Linux and Windows release.

Improvements

• Optimized inventory data gathering performance for sysctls.
• Updated YAML parsing to be more reliable.
• Can use dots in the names in inventory prefixes in integrations.

Bug fixes

• Fixes a potential panic when trying to read network information.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Linux and Windows release.

Improvements

• Factor built-in integration filters noisy puppet_agent_pid change events.
• Enhanced information available when running in verbose logging mode to help find StorageSample issues with unsupported file systems.
• StorageSamples are now collected for vxfs filesystem on Linux.
• Windows: svchost.exe processes will show more context info in their process names (akin to TaskMgr.exe behavior).
• Windows: Initial support for optional enabled_elevated_process_priv (set to true to use) which captures more process information if the account being used to run the agent has the SeDebugPrivilege right in its local policy.

Bug fixes

• StorageSample I/O calculations that show percentage should now display a ceiling of 100%.
• Agent will better detect when a PID is reused on Linux and Windows, and refresh any cached information about that process.
• Windows: built-in integration lp.exe (List Packages), has been re-written to use the latest On Host Integration SDK and protocol. The original integration was not working reliably and could litter logs with warnings.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows release.

Bug fixes

• If you are using the strip_command_line option in its default (true) setting, the command line value will properly handle paths with white space embedded in them.
• A memory leak found on Windows 10 and Windows Servers 2016 has been fixed.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows and Linux release.

New features

• Adds support for latest versions of the Infrastructure Integration SDK.
• Adds support for identifying the Google Cloud Platform instance ID (NOTE: all the existent GCP nodes will be renamed as now we're adding the gcp prefix in the id. This may trigger false-positive host not reporting alerts)

Bug fixes

• Fixes bug where absolute values specified in custom integration command lines would not be recognized.
• Fixes possible race condition when trying to collect storage metrics that could lead to a panic error and crash the agent.
• Fixes problem on Windows where agent would try to read the deprecated user_data folder and cause an error.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows and Linux release.

Bug fixes

• Deprecated Sysctl message will no longer appear in the logs.
• Containerized agents will now restart without an error.